This 30,000 word paper surveys the academic literature on the 1987 Fiji coup. The original version, now out of print, was published in 1992 as no. 9 in the Regime Change and Regime Maintenance in Asia and the Pacific series by the Department of Political & Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. This version may be cited as: Rory Ewins, Colour, Class and Custom: The Literature of the 1987 Fiji Coup, 2nd ed., 1998, http://speedysnail.com/pacific/fiji_coup/